Wedding Readings
A Call To Adventure, by John Mark Green
Set fire to all your maps,forget how it’s always been.We’re explorers of the heart,learning to dream again.The adventure of a lifetime,with Love alone as our guide.Exotic places beyond imagination—ones we’ve longed for deep inside.
Extract From Still Life With A Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and […]
An Extract From Love Atually, The Movie
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion is starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or […]
And I Have You, by Nikki Giovanni
Rain has dropsSun has shineMoon has beamsThat make you mineRivers have banksSands for shoresHearts have heartbeatsThat make me yoursNeedles have eyesThough pins may prickElmer has glueTo make things stickWinter has SpringStockings feetPepper has mintTo make it sweetTeachers have lessonsSoup du jourLawyers sue bad folksDoctors cureAll and allThis much is trueYou have meAnd I have you
Always, by Lang Leav
You were you and I was I; we were two before our time I was yours, before I knew and you have always been mine too.
Wedding Verse By Linda Harrison
The time has come to stand side by sideThe Groom in his glory, his beautiful Bride.They’ve waited so long for this moment in timeTo take their vows and say, “Will you be mine?” Marriage is precious and to be treasured.The love that you have can never be measured.It joins you as one, not just with […]
Wedding Reading Extract From Little Women
“I’m not a show, Aunty, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticise my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon. I’m too happy to care what anyone says or thinks, and I’m going to have my little wedding just as I like it.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
The Whitsun Weddings, by Philip Larkin
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till aboutOne-twenty on the sunlit SaturdayDid my three-quarters-empty train pull out,All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense Of being in a hurry gone. We ranBehind the backs of houses, crossed a streetOf blinding windscreens, smelt the fish-dock; thence The river’s level drifting breadth began,Where sky and Lincolnshire and […]
I'll Be There For You, by Louise Cuddon
I’ll be there, my darling, through thick and through thinWhen your mind’s in a mess and your head’s in a spinWhen your plane’s been delayed, and you’ve missed the last train.When life is just threatening to drive you insaneWhen your thrilling whodunit has lost its last pageWhen somebody tells you, you’re looking your ageWhen your […]
How We Love, by Beth Nielsen Chapman
Life has taught me thisEvery day is newAnd if anything is trueAll that mattersWhen we’re throughIs how we love Faced with what we lackSome things fall apartBut from the ashes new dreams startAll that matters to the heartIs how we love How we loveHow we loveFrom the smallest act of kindnessIn a word, a smile, […]
Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plentyof lives and whole towns destroyed or aboutto be. We are not wise, and not very oftenkind. And much can never be redeemed.Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps thisis its way of fighting back, that sometimessomething happens better than all […]
The Present, by Michael Donaghy
The PresentFor the present there is just one moon,though every level pond gives back another. But the bright disc shining in the black lagoon,perceived by astrophysicist and lover, is milliseconds old. And even that light’sseven minutes older than its source. And the stars we think we see on moonless nightsare long extinguished. And, of course, […]
